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Show m LONGER G. I. Vet Students Replace Navy 'Boots' FARRAGUT, IDAHO. In an attempt at-tempt to crack the national bottleneck bottle-neck in educational facilities, particularly par-ticularly for ex-G.I.s, education-hungry veterans have opened their own college here. At the site of the sprawling naval training station here, the veterans opened a privately operated, nonprofit, non-profit, co-educational college and technical institute this month. When the navy declared the huge training station surplus, veterans' organizations went into immediate action. They saw the station's vast dormitories, apartments, . classrooms, class-rooms, laboratories, machine shops and recreational facilities as the answer an-swer to two major veterans' problems: prob-lems: Lack of educational facilities facili-ties and housing accommodations while attending school. Raise S250,000 Fund. Backed by local business men, encouraged en-couraged by the United States department de-partment of education and other federal agencies, veterans' organizations organi-zations in north Idaho and eastern Washington formed a private nonprofit non-profit corporation. They called it Farragut College and Technical Institute, In-stitute, Inc., and set out to raise an initial operating fund of $250,000. Veterans' groups plunked down sums like $10,000 and $15,000 to start the ball rolling. Private clubs and individual citizens came across. The veterans hired a college president. Dr. Joseph H. Kusner, formerly of Florida, who is a veteran. He rounded up a faculty. The school was chartered by the state of Idaho and acceptable credits cred-its were assured. Federal problems of acquiring the property were hurdled. hur-dled. In Picturesque Country, Farragut, where hundreds of thousands of United States naval men were trained during the war, is on the shores of Lake Pend Oreille a picturesque spot in the heart of north Idaho's timber and , lake country. It has ample facili- ' ties for 15,000 students, including housing for single students, married students and faculty. Courses in the liberal arts and in the technical and trade fields will be taught by streamlined methods. |